Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oppenheimer's acknowledged brilliance makes him worthy of the platform. To judge him by any other standard is to violate the spirit of intellectual freedom. The Harvard Corporation has had the courage to evaluate Oppenheimer on the basis of his intellect, not of his politics...
...hearty bravo for your Feb. 4 Leonard Bernstein article. As usual, your story did an excellent job of capturing the spirit of the man and his music. I especially liked Koerner's cover portrait, which I think conveys that quality in Bernstein's conducting which is relaxed and yet, at the same time, powerful and forceful...
...diplomatic factors and forces, the basic foreign-policy concept of Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, is ceaselessly advocated and practiced at high policy levels by Airman Radford. This Eisenhower concept, carrying downward through all levels of U.S. foreign policy, thus reflects a growing U.S. move to recapture the spirit of the logic of what the Navy's great theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, called "reasonable policy supported by might," limited by Theodore Roosevelt's word of caution, "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be eventually able to carry...
...sense the Korean war was perhaps the antithesis of this spirit, inviting compound failure: before Korea the U.S. vacillated in its Asian policies, and the peace was lost; the U.S. then took the correct step of intervention and subsequently proved unwilling to carry out its will by full force. But after Eisenhower made his decision to end the Korean stalemate, he followed through with a second decision that put the U.S. back onto a logical policy footing. "This was the first time' in the history of our nation," says Radford, "that we didn't break up our military...
...group incorporated themselves under the name of the Harvard Club of Boston "for the purpose of promoting social intercourse among its members, fostering the Harvard spirit in all Harvard spirit in all Harvard men, advancing the interests and promoting the welfare of Harvard University. . . . " Five years later, the Club was well underway, and moved into the large Club-house at 374 Commonwealth Avenue which it still occupies today...